Icy reception for plan to 'save' Venezuela's last glacier
Experts say that would be too little too late. While glacier melt is a global phenomenon blamed on climate change, Venezuela is the first country in the Andes mountain range -- which stretches all the way to Chile in the south -- to lose all its glaciers. Venezuela has lost five in total, adding up to some 1,000 hectares of ice, in the last century or so. "In Venezuela there are no more glaciers," Julio Cesar Centeno, a university professor and advisor to the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), told AFP. Читать дальше...